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WA study challenges myth that pill testing at festivals leads to more drug taking – The Music Network
“There’s been a push in the media that if pill testing is rolled out, it’s going to give the green light to people to use drugs”
One of the foremost arguments put forward for blocking pill-testing at music festivals is that it leads to greater drug taking. A new study from Perths Edith Cowan University (ECU), however, shows that it is not the case.
Published in the Drug and Alcohol Review, it surveyed 247 patrons of a WA festival. Most (212) had taken ecstasy but they maintained that pill testing either at music events or the Perth CBD would not increase their MDMA intake.
In fact as studies on the east coast have shown,…
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